Afghan police base attack kills dozen
Iran Press TV
Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:13AM GMT
A dozen people, including five Afghan policemen, have been killed and several others wounded in a militant attack on a police facility in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad.
Afghan police sources said the attack was carried out during the early hours of Tuesday, when a group of seven bombers stormed the police base in the capital city of the eastern province of Nangarhar.
“The first one detonated a car bomb; two others entered the base and detonated themselves and the remaining four were shot dead in police fire,” said Nangarhar province police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal.
The attack took place on the second day of a visit to Afghanistan by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
The Taliban militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the militants targeted “foreigners and Israeli teachers” training Afghan police at the base in Jalalabad. “There are heavy police casualties,” the group stated.
Afghanistan remains insecure despite the presence of thousands of foreign forces.
On March 21, five people were killed when an explosive device went off inside a religious school in the Marja district of the southern province of Helmand.
DB/HSN
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